2011 Florida Statutes
TITLE XXIX — PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 400 — NURSING HOMES AND RELATED HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
PART II — NURSING HOMES
400.142 — Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate.
400.142 Emergency medication kits; orders not to resuscitate.—
(1) Other provisions of this chapter or of chapter 465, chapter 499, or chapter 893 to the contrary notwithstanding, each nursing home operating pursuant to a license issued by the agency may maintain an emergency medication kit for the purpose of storing medicinal drugs to be administered under emergency conditions to residents residing in such facility.
(2) The agency shall adopt such rules as it may deem appropriate to the effective implementation of this act, including, but not limited to, rules which:
(a) Define the term emergency medication kit.
(b) Describe the medicinal drugs eligible to be placed in emergency medication kits.
(c) Establish requirements for the storing of medicinal drugs in emergency medication kits and the maintenance of records with respect thereto.
(d) Establish requirements for the administration of medicinal drugs to residents under emergency conditions from emergency medication kits.
(3) Facility staff may withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with an order not to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 401.45. The agency shall adopt rules providing for the implementation of such orders. Facility staff and facilities shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability, nor be considered to have engaged in negligent or unprofessional conduct, for withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to such an order and rules adopted by the agency. The absence of an order not to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 401.45 does not preclude a physician from withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation as otherwise permitted by law.
History.—ss. 40, 83, ch. 83-181; s. 30, ch. 93-177; ss. 32, 49, ch. 93-217; s. 3, ch. 99-331; s. 2, ch. 2000-295.
Note.—Former s. 400.3221.
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